Apr 5 2009 Friend Me: Celebrities' Fake Facebook Pages
For fun on April 1st, PC World Magazine made a bunch of fake Facebook pages for celebrities (we've already seen God's), including, and pretty much limited to: Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, Elvis, Andy Warhol, Satan, Rush Limbaugh, Hillary Clinton, Dr. Manhattan and William Shakespeare. I posted a little of Mr. Gates' there so you could get an idea of what to expect. Go HERE if you want to check them out in their full detail. And if not, hey, we can still be friends. Facebook friends! Seriously, my friend list is empty without you. Haha, I just sent you a virtual bumper sticker, now Superpoke me!
UPDATE: Readers Jess and Zeyd sent me the Facebook page of Greek mythology students. You can see it HERE.
Facebook Pages We'd Like to See [pcworld]
Thanks to Rafi, who still hasn't accepted my friend request. Seriously, just hit the button, bro.
Feb 4 2009 Bill Gates Releases Swarm Of Mosquitos On Smart People. Surprisingly, I Don't Get Bitten
So apparently Bill Gates released a swarm of mosquitoes on an auditorium filled with smart, rich people (myself excluded) during a TED (Technology, Entertainment, and Design) conference.
Ending malaria is a particular passion of Gates's, whose Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation has spent millions fighting the disease. But he apparently didn't feel like TED attendees were taking the threat seriously. "Not only poor people should experience this," Gates said as he let the bugs loose on his audience, according to Facebook manager Dave Morin. (eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and Twitter CEO Ev Williams confirm the report.)
Nice Bill, the only difference between your mosquitoes and the poor folks' is that theirs are carrying malaria. So that's kind of different. You want to cure malaria you got to give the rich people malaria. *shooting poison dart* Okay, that may have been herpes.
Bill Gates Unleashes Mosquito Swarm [valleywag]
Thanks to Chrissy, who once released a swarm of kickass on some jerk for throwing a spider on her.
Jan 31 2009 This Is What A Billion Dollars Looks Like
Get a good look folks, because you're sure as hell never gonna see it in real life.
One Billion Dollar is stacked on 12 standard pallets, altogether 10 million 100 USD notes. One Billion Dollar is not so much about what you see but what you could do or not do with the money. Besides, this is the most expensive piece of art ever made.
Haha, that's not art, that's somebody robbed a bank. And speaking of which....
UPDATE: Damnit, wrong bank. Oh well -- anybody looking to get pregnant?
Hit the jump for a couple more pictures and another piece of art by the same artist (Michael Marcovici) that depicts an average life in bags of Rolex sand.
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Sep 12 2008 The Latest Microsoft Ad With Bill And Jerry
This is Microsoft's latest (and longest, at 4:30) commercial featuring Jerry Seinfeld and Bill Gates. I found it moderately entertaining. But what I really took away from the experience was this: if Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld ever stayed at my place, I'd rob those suckers blind. Or at least 20/100. That was a vision joke!
Thanks to Doug and Popadopolis, you can come stay at my place anytime. Just bring beer.
Sep 5 2008 The New Bill Gates/Jerry Seinfeld Microsoft Ad
Remember when we posted that Microsoft was finally gonna stop taking it up the Vista and combat those "Get A Mac" ads? Well here's the first one, featuring Bill Gates and Jerry Seinfeld. It has a shoe theme. And, while I did like the commercial, I didn't get the commercial. Is there any getting to be got? It seems like an old Seinfeld episode. Is Microsoft selling churros now?
Thanks to Terry, who has enough sense to know that big cinnamon sugar pretzels pwn churros.
Aug 22 2008 Microsoft Recruits Gates, Seinfeld To Help Combat Apple's Current "Get A Mac" Ads
Apple keeps putting out those "Get a Mac" ads and Microsoft has finally decided it's not going to take them lying down with its ass in the air. So what's the company doing? Starting an ad campaign with "key celebrity pitchman" Jerry Seinfeld. Oh, and Bill Gates.
The campaign is said to be based on the idea of "Windows, Not Walls," stressing the need to "break down barriers that prevent people and ideas from connecting." Something we think open-sourcers might have a laugh at. Anywho, the immediate goal of the campaign is to reverse the negative public perception of Vista and thus incorporates elements of the Mojave Experiment. While we have doubts about the latter, the combination of Seinfeld's pithy observations with a bit of that Bill Gates, self deprecating humor seen in "Bill's Last Day" could be a winning combination.
The campaign, which kicks off September 4th, will cost Microsoft over $300 million, which, if I've done my nautical math correctly, is a lot of freaking clams. More than I could eat in one sitting anyway. If Microsoft gave me a hundredth of that money I could run Apple into the ground single keyboardedly. I'M THE GEEKOLOGIE WRITER DAMNIT, WHEN I TYPE, PEOPLE READ! Isn't that...Jesus, you're not even paying attention are you?
Microsoft enlists Seinfeld, Gates to battle "Get a Mac" ads [engadget]
Thanks Sam, you wanna be part of my smear campaign?
Jan 7 2008 CES Keynote: Gates' Last Day At Microsoft
Well Bill Gates made the CES keynote again, and this one included a little movie of what his last day at Microsoft might be like in July. It's a tad long, at 8:27, but it's worth watching if you have the time (or you can just skip around). It features every celebrity ever making cameos, and proves that not only is Bill worth more money than the world, but that he should give me some of that money because I'm his favorite Geekologie writer. Bill, if you get bored in retirement feel free to stop by sometime, we could hang out and shoot the shit. Or you could shoot me. You know, for a cool $1,000,000. If shooting isn’t your thing you could stab me a couple times for $50,000 a pop.
Jan 30 2007 Bill Gates on The Daily Show
The world's richest man should be dressed in a solid gold suit of armor at all times. And diamonds. Diamonds everywhere. And maybe a robot that walks for him. Like a robotic spider Segway.
